Amplitude
Staff Backend Engineer, WorkspacesNew
Amplitude, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3,200 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth.As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.About The Role & Team
The Workspaces team is a core vertical product team responsible for driving engagement and retention across our Analytics product line. The team owns a wide variety of surfaces (Search, Dashboards, Spaces, Alerts and Notifications). As we invest more in notifications, alerts, and search as engagement levers, there is a need to scale out our existing infrastructure. This role will help us ensure we can support 10X growth in usage of these services.As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will:Drive performance and scalability improvements for our notifications, alerting, and ML infrastructureEnhance caching infrastructure to support products with low frequency of usage but high query volumeImprove quality of our anomaly detection modelsIdentify and contribute to the infrastructure roadmap for the Workspaces teamYou'll be a great addition to the team if you have:Experience building and deploying services on AWS or similar cloud providersProficiency in at least one of the following: Python, JavascriptExperience with both relational and NoSQL databasesExperience working on consumer facing productsExperience on services that have needed to scale quicklyWho We Are
The Company:
Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.The Product:
Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.We care about the well-being of our team:
We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.Some of our benefit programs include:Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plansFlexible time off, paid holidays, and moreGenerous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much moreExcellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care supportMental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)Other fun facts about Amplitude:We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.We're focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI):
Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.
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The Workspaces team is a core vertical product team responsible for driving engagement and retention across our Analytics product line. The team owns a wide variety of surfaces (Search, Dashboards, Spaces, Alerts and Notifications). As we invest more in notifications, alerts, and search as engagement levers, there is a need to scale out our existing infrastructure. This role will help us ensure we can support 10X growth in usage of these services.As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will:Drive performance and scalability improvements for our notifications, alerting, and ML infrastructureEnhance caching infrastructure to support products with low frequency of usage but high query volumeImprove quality of our anomaly detection modelsIdentify and contribute to the infrastructure roadmap for the Workspaces teamYou'll be a great addition to the team if you have:Experience building and deploying services on AWS or similar cloud providersProficiency in at least one of the following: Python, JavascriptExperience with both relational and NoSQL databasesExperience working on consumer facing productsExperience on services that have needed to scale quicklyWho We Are
The Company:
Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.The Product:
Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.We care about the well-being of our team:
We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.Some of our benefit programs include:Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plansFlexible time off, paid holidays, and moreGenerous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much moreExcellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care supportMental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)Other fun facts about Amplitude:We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.We're focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI):
Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.
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